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"Trireme hero. Good against myth units. Can transport units."
In-game description

The Argo is a Greek hero archer ship available to worshipers of Aphrodite. It is spawned at the Dock in the Heroic Age after researching Argonauts, and can be trained again if destroyed. It is the only heroic ship in the game.

The Argo has different attributes in the earlier Ages, but it automatically gains buffs to attack and hit points with every Age up.

Before Retold, it gained +10% hit points in each of the Classical/Heroic/Mythic Ages, as well as +1 attack in the Heroic Age and another +1 in the Mythic Age. Hence, it started with +20% hit points and +1 attack by default when first produced in the Heroic Age. While it appeared as and was affected by technologies benefiting archer ships, it itself was not one. Therefore, the Argo did not receive increased damage from Kebenits with Funeral Barge.

Technologies

General Technologies

	Name	Description
	Copper Weapons	+10% damage
	Bronze Weapons	+10% damage
	Iron Weapons	+10% damage
	Ballistics	Fires more accurately at moving targets.

	Name	Description
	Copper Armor	-15% Hack Vulnerability
	Bronze Armor	-15% Hack Vulnerability
	Iron Armor	-15% Hack Vulnerability
	Copper Shields	-15% Pierce Vulnerability
	Bronze Shields	-15% Pierce Vulnerability
	Iron Shields	-15% Pierce Vulnerability

Myth Technologies

	Name	God	Description
	Oracle	Apollo	+4 Line of Sight
	Sun Ray	Apollo	+10% anti-flying damage, projectiles reveal the surrounding area

Bonuses

Age Bonuses

	Name	Description
	Mythic Age	+20% hit points, +30% damage, +1 damage multiplier against myth units.

Relic Bonuses

	Name	Description
	Arrows of Heracles	+5% attack
	Hermes' Winged Sandals	+10% movement speed
	The Khopesh of Horus	+1.0 attack bonus multiplier vs. myth units
	Pelt of Argus	+6 Line of Sight
	Thundercloud Shawl	-5% pierce vulnerability
	Tyrfing, Angantyr's Sword	Regenerate +10% of damage dealt

Gameplay

As with all heroes, The Argo is strongest against myth units. It is ranged so it can fire arrows at enemies from a distance. As the only naval hero in the game, The Argo is crucial in combating naval myth units like the Kraken, as the latter can otherwise periodically sink regular warships instantly due to its special ability. In other regards, The Argo functions as an archer ship, making it strong against close-combat ships, but weak against siege ships. The Argo can also be sunk by shore defenses and siege weapons.

Mythology

"The Argo ("swift sailing") was a ship built by Argos of Thessaly out of beech trees from Mount Pelion. Athena aided in the construction herself. Jason and the other Argonauts sailed on the Argo in their quest for the Golden Fleece. It was the largest ship ever built, with a full fifty oars, one for each of the Argonauts. Athena fitted the bow with a figurehead of lumber cut from her sacred oaks at Dodona that could speak and had the gift of prophecy.
Some of the Argonauts included:
• Jason, the captain
• Atalanta of Arcadia, the virgin huntress
• Calais, the winged son of Boreas
• Heracles, the strongest man in Greece
• Peleus the Myrmidon, Achilles' father
• Orpheus, the Thracian bard
• Castor and Pollux, the Spartan Dioscuri
• Nauplius the Argive, son of Poseidon and a great navigator

• And that most famous of Greek heroes, Butes of Athens, the bee-master"
In-game compendium

Gallery

Trivia

During the Alpha, what would later become The Argo's model was much larger, and used for the Trireme. The model was made smaller, and reused for The Argo, for unknown reasons.
Unlike most hero units, The Argo cannot pick up Relics (even if they are close to the water).
Jason is most famously the captain of The Argo, yet he is only available to Zeus worshippers, who does not have Aphrodite as a minor goddess.

Video

List of Units

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+| title             = The Argo
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+| section1          = Unit Information
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+| label4 = Age
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+| content2 = Greek
+| content3 = Aphrodite
+| content4 = Heroic Age
+| section2 = Creation
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+| label5 = Trained At
+| label6 = Requires
+| label7 = Gold
+| label8 = Wood
+| label9 = Favor
+| label10 = Population
+| label11 = Train Limit
+| label12 = Training Time
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+| content6 = [[Argonauts]]
+| content7 = 100
+| content8 = 250
+| content9 = 4
+| content10 = 2
+| content11 = 1
+| content12 = 25 seconds
+| section3 = Statistics
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+| label14 = Speed
+| label15 = Line of Sight
+| label16 = Hack Armor
+| label17 = Pierce Armor
+| label18 = Crush Armor
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+| icon18 = infobox-crush-armor.webp
+| content13 = 350
+| content14 = 4.3
+| content15 = 20
+| content16 = 25%
+| content17 = 35%
+| content18 = 99%
+| section4 = Ranged Attack
+| itemsInSection4 = 5
+| label22 = Pierce
+| label23 = Projectiles
+| label24 = Multiplier
+| label25 = Rate of Fire
+| label26 = Attack Range
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+| icon23 =
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+| content22 = 10
+| content23 = 3
+| content24 = Myth Unit: 6.5x
+| content25 = 1.2
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+}}
+{{Quote|Trireme hero. Good against myth units. Can transport units.|In-game description}}
+The Argo is a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[Heroes|hero]] archer ship available to worshipers of [[Aphrodite]]. It is spawned at the [[Dock]] in the [[Heroic Age]] after researching [[Argonauts]], and can be trained again if destroyed. It is the only heroic ship in the game.
+The Argo has different attributes in the earlier Ages, but it automatically gains buffs to attack and hit points with every Age up.
+Before Retold, it gained +10% hit points in each of the Classical/Heroic/Mythic Ages, as well as +1 attack in the Heroic Age and another +1 in the Mythic Age. Hence, it started with +20% hit points and +1 attack by default when first produced in the Heroic Age. While it appeared as and was affected by technologies benefiting archer ships, it itself was not one. Therefore, the Argo did not receive increased damage from [[Kebenit]]s with [[Funeral Barge]].
+==Technologies==
+====General Technologies====
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! !! Name !! Description
+|-
+| [[File:shared-t-copper-weapons.webp|40px]] || Copper Weapons || +10% damage
+|-
+| [[File:shared-t-bronze-weapons.webp|40px]] || Bronze Weapons || +10% damage
+|-
+| [[File:shared-t-iron-weapons.webp|40px]] || Iron Weapons || +10% damage
+|-
+| [[File:shared-t-ballistics.webp|40px]] || Ballistics || Fires more accurately at moving targets.
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! !! Name !! Description
+|-
+| [[File:shared-t-copper-armor.webp|40px]] || Copper Armor|| -15% Hack Vulnerability
+|-
+| [[File:shared-t-bronze-armor.webp|40px]] || Bronze Armor|| -15% Hack Vulnerability
+|-
+| [[File:shared-t-iron-armor.webp|40px]] || Iron Armor|| -15% Hack Vulnerability
+|-
+| [[File:shared-t-copper-shields.webp|40px]] || Copper Shields|| -15% Pierce Vulnerability
+|-
+| [[File:shared-t-bronze-shields.webp|40px]] || Bronze Shields || -15% Pierce Vulnerability
+|-
+| [[File:shared-t-iron-shields.webp|40px]] || Iron Shields|| -15% Pierce Vulnerability
+|}
+=====Myth Technologies=====
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! !! Name !! God !! Description
+|-
+| [[File:grk-t-oracle.webp|40px]] || [[Oracle]] || [[Apollo]] || +4 [[Line of Sight]]
+|-
+| [[File:grk-t-sun-ray.webp|40px]] || [[Sun Ray]] || Apollo || +10% anti-flying damage, projectiles reveal the surrounding area
+|}
+==Bonuses==
+====Age Bonuses====
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! !! Name !! Description
+|-
+| [[File:Infobox-age4.webp|40px]] || [[Mythic Age]] || +20% hit points, +30% damage, +1 damage multiplier against myth units.
+|}
+====Relic Bonuses====
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! !! Name !! Description
+|-
+| [[File:shared-r-bow.webp|40px]] || [[Arrows of Heracles]]|| +5% attack
+|-
+| [[File:shared-r-horseshoe.webp|40px]] || [[Hermes' Winged Sandals]] || +10% movement speed
+|-
+| [[File:shared-r-khopesh.webp|40px]] || [[The Khopesh of Horus]]|| +1.0 attack bonus multiplier vs. myth units
+|-
+| [[File:shared-r-fur.webp|40px]] || [[Pelt of Argus]] || +6 [[Line of Sight]]
+|-
+| [[File:shared-r-blanket.webp|40px]] || [[Thundercloud Shawl]]  || -5% pierce vulnerability
+|-
+| [[File:shared-r-sword.webp|40px]] || [[Tyrfing, Angantyr's Sword]] || Regenerate +10% of damage dealt
+|}
+==Gameplay==
+As with all heroes, The Argo is strongest against [[Myth Unit|myth units]]. It is ranged so it can fire arrows at enemies from a distance. As the only naval hero in the game, The Argo is crucial in combating naval myth units like the [[Kraken]], as the latter can otherwise periodically sink regular warships instantly due to its special ability. In other regards, The Argo functions as an archer ship, making it strong against close-combat ships, but weak against siege ships. The Argo can also be sunk by shore defenses and siege weapons.
+==Mythology==
+{{Quote|The Argo ("swift sailing") was a ship built by Argos of Thessaly out of beech trees from Mount Pelion. Athena aided in the construction herself. Jason and the other Argonauts sailed on the Argo in their quest for the Golden Fleece. It was the largest ship ever built, with a full fifty oars, one for each of the Argonauts. Athena fitted the bow with a figurehead of lumber cut from her sacred oaks at Dodona that could speak and had the gift of prophecy.
+Some of the Argonauts included:
+• Jason, the captain</br>
+• Atalanta of Arcadia, the virgin huntress</br>
+• Calais, the winged son of Boreas</br>
+• Heracles, the strongest man in Greece</br>
+• Peleus the Myrmidon, Achilles' father</br>
+• Orpheus, the Thracian bard</br>
+• Castor and Pollux, the Spartan Dioscuri</br>
+• Nauplius the Argive, son of Poseidon and a great navigator</br>
+• And that most famous of Greek heroes, Butes of Athens, the bee-master|In-game compendium}}
+==Gallery==
+==Trivia==
+* During the Alpha, what would later become The Argo's model was much larger, and used for the Trireme. The model was made smaller, and reused for The Argo, for unknown reasons.
+* Unlike most hero units, The Argo cannot pick up Relics (even if they are close to the water).
+* Jason is most famously the captain of The Argo, yet he is only available to Zeus worshippers, who does not have Aphrodite as a minor goddess.
+==Video==
+==List of Units==
+{{Heroes}}
+__NOEDITSECTION__